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                <p>In the coming weeks and months, Americans will ask why more people did not evacuate when it was clear that Hurricane Harvey would cause record flooding in Texas. Already, critics are questioning why local leaders in the Houston and Galveston areas <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/08/27/harvey-is-causing-epic-catastrophic-flooding-in-houston-why-wasnt-the-city-evacuated/?utm_term=.97b6315c6d93" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">chose</a> not to order mandatory evacuations.</p>
                <p>Given the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/27/us/houston-evacuation-hurricane-harvey/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">fatalities</a> that occurred during the disastrous 2005 evacuation during Hurricane Rita, and the fact that Harvey shifted from being a tropical depression to a Category 4 hurricane in less than 48 hours, it is hard to criticize the leaders for telling residents to stay put.</p>
                <p>Even if there had been a mandatory evacuation order in place for all the Texas coastal and inland areas ravaged by Harvey’s floods, thousands if not millions of residents still would not have evacuated. Some residents will always stay because they always <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/27/us/hurricane-harvey-houston-tough-texas.html?mcubz=1&amp;_r=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ignore</a> evacuation orders.</p>
                
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                <p>Others will stay because of the price tag attached to being safe. Evacuating is not cost-free. To evacuate, you must have a way to leave. People who do not own or have access to a safe and reliable car, or who cannot afford to keep the car filled with gas throughout the evacuation process, will stay because there is no way for them to leave.</p>
                <p>To evacuate, you also need to have a place to stay. People who do not have family or friends nearby with the space to shelter them and the disposable income to feed them will need to stay in a hotel or live in their cars. They will also need to buy and find a way to cook food, or pay to eat out for an indeterminate length of time.</p>
                
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                <p>To pay the costs—including transportation, housing, food, and other expenses—associated with an evacuation, the evacuee needs either savings, ample disposable income, or the capacity to finance an evacuation using short-term debt. All but the highest-income families struggle to make ends meet even when they are not faced with what is shaping up to be the <a href="https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/tropical-storm-hurricane-harvey-rain-flood-forecast-texas-louisiana" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">worst flooding</a> event in U.S. history. People stayed because they could not afford to leave.</p>
                <p><a href="https://www.federalreserve.gov/2015-report-economic-well-being-us-households-201605.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Studies</a> and <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/12/pf/americans-lack-of-savings/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">surveys</a> persistently show that almost half of Americans have not saved enough to cover a $1,000 unplanned emergency such as a hurricane evacuation. Only about 20% could <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/12/pf/americans-lack-of-savings/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">use a credit card</a> to pay for the emergency, and approximately 10% could borrow from friends or family.</p>
                <p>Poor residents, in particular, are unlikely to have saved enough to pay for a multi-day (perhaps multi-week) evacuation. But over 25% of Americans who earn more than $150,000 annually and almost 45% of people who earn between $100,000 and $150,000 also have <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2016/10/09/savings-study/91083712/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">less than $1,000 in savings</a>.</p>
                
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